Archive for the ‘Inflammation’ Category

Let’s think about diabetes for a moment. By the time diabetes is found medically, often the pancreas can no longer make insulin and drugs are given – for the rest of our lives!

Of course there are genetic reasons for diabetes – but it’s amazing how many of us, perhaps knowingly, perhaps not – cause the destruction of our own pancreatic cells. The pancreas makes at least 8 known hormones – by the time we have diabetes, doctors tell us it’s too late. Is this true? Do you simply trust your doctor 100% without a second thought?

I’ve been working with the health of the pancreas since 1995 and I find that assuming the cells aren’t totally dead, they can be resurrected! But let’s look at what happens in the 5, 10, 20 years before we’re diagnosed with diabetes… Some combination of the following will have happened, and generally we’ll turn a blind eye if it doesn’t suit our fun times and our lifestyle…

putting on weight – tummy measurements over 32.5 inches for women and over 34.5 inches for men (or our BMI is over 30) increase inflammatory hormones – which in turn lowers the amount of digestive hormones released from stomach, small intestines, pancreas, liver and gall bladder. Losing weight is challenging if a. you don’t make up your mind to do it b. you don’t find the right weight loss process and c. you don’t have the support in the background to manage the detoxification throughout the process. We love the keto diets; shake it programmes and HCG Rapid weight loss processes. Sometimes you can do it with just nutritional support, but not very often…

are you insulin resistant? So you haven’t as yet shown up as having diabetes but you suspect you’re on your way (and in denial perhaps?) Do you have any of the following symptoms that you’ve been wondering if it’s linked to a pre-diabetic condition?

thirsty all the time?

wake through the night and need water?

sugar cravings? poor blood sugar?

need carbohydrates with every meal?

moody if you’ve missed a meal?

headaches if you miss a meal?

alcohol cravings?

poor digestion?

fatty liver?

hunger?

memory issues – poor memory is linked to dementia which is linked to high levels of insulin destroying the extremities (the brain)

fatigue?

blurred vision

stress – stress is known to inhibit digestive hormones as well. Do you sweep your stress under the carpet? Or do you do anything about it? We support stress with kinesiology, acupuncture, nutritional and herbal medications – we support lifestyle choices such as lowering alcohol levels; yoga; eating a healthy diet; stretching; exercise and pilates… What is your greatest de-stressor!!

diet – there is so much misinformation out there in relation to diet and mostly doctors and dieticians support high carbohydrate diets, with plenty of servings of grain daily. This is ludicrous given the masses of information out there about how an imbalance of carbohydrates in the diet exhaust the pancreas. It makes me so cranky! In order to reverse pancreatic damage you need to give it a rest! For months! Cut out the wheat, grains, sugars, alcohol, cereals, breads, cakes, pastries! You can HEAL your PANCREAS!! Eating badly is fun, but it’s still a choice to create damage in our bodies. Kinesiology can support you in finding out what foods your body is having issues with – what’s slowing down your metabolism? Your thyroid? Activating your adrenals? Messing with your pancreas?

pain killers – some people find one of the side effects of taking pain killing medication is that their digestive tract plays up. As pain killers reduce inflammation (obviously what we’re after if we take them) they also accidentally shut down other inflammatory processes such as digestive functions and immune function.

addictions – many of our addictions mess with our pancreas. Alcohol. Sugar. 2pm chocolate. Soft drinks. Diet soft drinks. By ‘self-medicating’ we are often slowly poisoning our bodies (and we know it) and just keep hoping we’re going to get away with it.

toxicity – toxins can bind with receptors all over the body – and inhibit the release of enzymes and hormones. When we’ve had lots of toxicity due to chemotherapy, radiation, medications for pain, anti-biotics and vaccinations, not to mention pesticides, herbicides, genetically modified foods – OMG where does it end – any organ of the body that cops the overload of toxicity can suffer.

So… What do we do about it?

start working on improving your body composition. We want the BMI below 25.

are you a skinny fat person? We can do a BioImpedance Screening and check out the fat mass; muscle mass and hydration levels – if we’re skinny fat our body can actually be acting as though our BMI is over 30.

deal with your stress. Find someone you trust and start dealing with it until it doesn’t hurt to deal with it anymore!

own your diet, own your choices! Start chatting to us about what foods will really start moving you in the direction towards health.

improve the health of your body – find out which supplements you need! Talk to us at New Leaf about what reverses your sugar cravings.

improve the health of your stem cells so that you can repair your damaged cells? Stem Cell Nutrition supports better health and wellbeing overall. Only stem cells replace destroyed cells – of any type – in your body. Check out these products at madonnaguy.cerule.com

start finding ways of detoxifying and reducing your unneeded medicationsand addictions– this takes time, energy and effort – but if you’re fatigued and have symptoms, isn’t it time to give your body a chance to heal?

get some testing done at New Leaf to find out WHAT you NEED…

Chromium and vanadium are two ingredients of insulin. If these are low in your body you CAN’T make insulin. Our OligoScan will tell you this.

Insulin resistance testing – this quick test lets us know if you’re on the way to diabetes. The OligoScan will also let you know.

Accurate BMI – find out if your body is highly inflamed? Looking at your blood and doing a VLA BioImpedance Screening can let you know how inflamed your body is…

Diabetes is considered an auto-immune condition – this means your body is inflamed, has immune issues and leaky gut, and oxidative stress. Our testing will let you know where you’re sitting on this see-saw! and for number 9…. this one’s up to you… what’s your big trigger!?

So, have you been watching parts of The Biggest Loser – Tranformation?

I always watch bits and pieces of it – and am constantly reminded how hard it is to lose weight. These are people taken from their daily lives, with no distractions, who get really disappointed with their weight loss – if it’s ‘ONLY’ a kilo, or two, or three – per week. These people are not given the appreciation of what it really means to lose this weight.

I know TV is just about the numbers, but here re some things that are NEVER mentioned on the show, which frustrate the hell out of me! You’ve got to remember when we ae losing weight we are shifting our entire body composition. Here are some overall body shifts that happen throughout weight loss:

As we remove inflammatoryfoods (grains, sugars, alcohol, breads, cereals, soft-drinks, diet drinks (aspartame) our body has the ability to become more hydrated. As we become more hydrated we are weighing more – in every cell in our body!

As we increase herbal and water we are adding water-weight to our total weigh-in. Water is anti-inflammatory. We are aiming to have more than 50% of fluid INSIDE the cells… When we have less than 50% of fluid inside the cells our cells are oozing nutrients – we’re not shifting what we need to shift. Oestrogen, for women (or men with lots of tummy fat) is inflammatory and hinders our ability to hydrate our cells, therefore men will often have 55%-65% of fluid inside their cells easily (on a crappy diet) whereas women struggle to get 50-55%. But we do see the increase slowly but surely as clients do weight loss processes along with detoxification

We gain muscle mass! These people on these shows often start their journeys with an incredibly low level of muscle mass. Therefore as they are changing their diet, doing heaps of exercise, weights, training – they may be building muscle mass. As we increase the muscle quality and the muscle mass (you have to create micro-damage in the muscles in order to create more muscle mass) our cellular energy starts to increase. This also improves the heart quality as well, simultaneously.

These 3 factors are really important to consider when losing weight. It’s easy to get disheartened. Our VLA BioImpedance Screening process will let you know EXACTLY what is going on in your body at a cellular level!

Some people are lucky enough to be able to lose weight easily when they put their mind to it – but many of us aren’t that lucky. Talk to us about ways we can support your weight loss journey today.